North Carolina taxpayers could chip in $25 million for the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility, a federal disease research lab proposed for Butner. State Rep. Jim Crawford, a Democrat representing Granville and Vance counties, says officials from the N.C. Biotechnology Center, which is a member of the state consortium lobbying to bring the facility […]
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Feel like a number
Half of Durham County registered voters cast ballots in the primary, the highest turnout for a May election at least 15 years, according to preliminary results from the Durham Board of Elections. More than 78,400 of 156,648 voters cast ballots. Provisional ballots are still being counted, and arent included in the total. Tyrrell County, which […]
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Despite residents’ concerns, call boxes, lights get OK
Its been six months since the UNC Student Government Association, led by President Eve Carson, gave the Town of Chapel Hill $80,000 generated by student fees, to install extra lighting and emergency call boxes in several downtown neighborhoods. And two months after Carsons murder in one of those neighborhoods, the Town Council voted unanimously Monday […]
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Most new voters are Dems
Of the 186,800 voters who have registered in North Carolina since January, 56 percent of them have registered as Democratic, as the party has made major gains in new registrations in most of the states 100 counties. Meanwhile, 7 percent of the states new voters have registered as Republican and about one-third have registered as […]
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Saved by the bell
Once in danger of closing, the Lakewood YMCA will become a Montessori Middle School, pending final negotiations among Durham County Commissioners, school board and the YMCA of the Triangle. Durham County will buy the 57,000-square-foot YMCA for $250,000 and transfer the property to Durham Public Schools. The renovation is estimated at $8 million. The YMCA […]
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You knew him
Willie Davis was as predictable as the sunrise. Each day, he leaned on his crutches at the corner of South Roxboro Road and Morehead Avenue in Durham cheerfully greeting the thousands of people who drove by. Several of the motorists gave him money, and in return he gave them the comfort of consistencyand a human […]
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2008 primary endorsements
It could be the Claritin talking, but the 2008 primary races have been extraordinarily difficult to wade through. In many contests, the candidates are equally well qualified or similarly dismal, yet we have to decide whom to endorse. The journalistic obligation is daunting because there’s so much at stake: This year, voters will elect the […]
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Bitter in the sticks
The country life was good to me, almost to the point of cliché. I spent a feral childhood roaming the 20-acre woods where I was raised, climbing trees, catching toads and eating wild raspberries off the vine. So when I heard Barack Obama’s recent generalizations about the attitudes of rural Americans toward guns, God and […]
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We’re still here
25 years of: Writing: Indy alums discuss journalism’s future Photographs: 1983-1989: A slide show Music: A scrapbook of ephemera from the local scene Funnies: Political cartoons V.C. Rogers Arts: Change is constantand mostly good Films: We’re hospitable now, so when will the filmmaking begin? Timeline: Events that shaped the Triangle and the Indy Coda: Our […]
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Durham candidate for commissioner declared bankruptcy
Durham County Commissioners hopeful Doug Wright filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy last July, due to expenses from an extended child custody battle, the candidate said this week. According to federal bankruptcy records, Wright and his wife amassed $193,232 in debt, including nine credit cards, two mortgages, medical bills and personal and car loans. The Wrights listed […]